Until recently AIDS was not even regarded...

MODERN MEDICINE.

March 3, 1988

KUWAIT — MODERN MEDICINE. Until recently AIDS was not even regarded as a problem in the Middle East. But with 110 cases reported in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, the wall of silence has begun to crumble. Conservative Arab governments are warning people with a message as much religious as scientific. In a typical public service spot, Arabic script fills the television screen as a stern voice intones a saying of the prophet Mohammed: ''When obscenity flourished among them, even in public, a plague appeared that their forefathers never knew.''